SYLLABUS FOR COMBINED EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

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ENGLISH
Full Marks: 200
Descriptive:100
Objective:100

GROUP A: DESCRIPTIVE:

Unit 1:POETRY
1. John Donne: Batter My Heart Three Personed God
2. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
3. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
4. D.G. Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel
5. W.B.Yeats: The Second Coming
6. T.S.Eliot: The Love-song of J.Alfred Prufrock
7. Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox
8. Robert Frost: Mending Wall

Unit II: FICTION
1. Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
2. Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness
3. Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God
4. Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children

Unit III: DRAMA
1. John Webster: The White Devil
2. Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
3. Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s I-louse
4. Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party

Unit IV: LITERARY THEORY and CRITICISM
1. T.S.Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
2. Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
3. Elain Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics
4. Ronald Barthes: The death of the Author

Unit V: HISTORICAL and LITERARY TOPICS
1. Petrarchism and the Sonnet Cycle
2. The influence of Seneca and Classical dramatic theory
3. Metaphysical Poetry
4. Restoration Drama
5. The Romantic Concept of the imagination
6. The rise of the periodical essay and the Novel
7. The Victorian Novel
8. Absurdism
9. Feminism
10. Modernism and Post-modernism

Unit VI: PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS

Unit VII: COPY-EDITING

HISTORY OF INDIA
Full Marks: 200
Essay Type: 100
Objective Type: 100

Unit 1
a) Sources of Indian History Archaeological sources; Literary sources; Foreign accounts.
b) Pre-history and Proto-history Paleolithic and Mesolithic Cultures; Neolithic Cultures; Harappan Civilization.

Unit 2
a) Vedic period Migration, settlements, evolution of social & political institutions, religious and philosophical ideas, rituals and practices.
b) Period of Mahajanapadas Formation of States (Mahajanapadas); spread of Jainism and Buddhism.

Unit 3 Mauryan Empire Post Mauryan Empire Kushanas, Satavahanas, Sangam Age.

Unit 4 Imperial Guptas and Regional States of India Guptas, Harshavardhan Pratiharas, Palas, Rashtrakutas, Pallavas.

Unit 5 Arab invasion of Sindh Bhakti and Sufi Movements

Unit 6 The Delhi Sultanate Political developments, Administration, Economic aspect and Socio- cultural life.

Unit 7 The Mughals Political developments, Administration, Economic aspect and Socio- cultural life. (Akbar, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb etc.)

Unit 8 India in the 17th – 18th Century Advent of the Europeans, Rise of British power; Expansion and consolidation (Robert Clive to Dalhousie)

Unit 9 India under the British Crown Administration, Economic History and Indian Society in transition

Unit 10 Indian National Movement (Origin & Growth)
** Popular Resistance to Company’s Rule: Peasant and tribal movements; Moplah rebellion, Indigo riots, etc. Revolt of 1857: Causes, nature and results.
** Emergence of organized nationalism: Swadeshi Movement; Moderates – Formation of the INC, programme and plans of INC Extremist and Revolutionaries.
** Emerging communal trends: Communalism
** Constitutional development upto 1919
** Rise of Gandhi and the nature of Gandhian Movements: Kheda, Champaran, Mill workers strike, non-cooperation movement, Civil Disobedience movement
** Indian Polity(1939-45) and the Quit India Movement
** INA and Subash Chandra Bose ** Communal Politics and Partition